Fwd: Request for pTLA

[Bob Fink]

6bone folk,

The regio.net (regio-de on the 6bone) folk in Germany have requested pTLA
status (see below). I would 
like to have comments pro and con on this, to me or the mailer.

I will close the discussion for a final decision on 12 Jan 98.

Thanks,
Bob


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>From: horke@mail.regio.net (Bernhard Kroenung)
>Subject: Request for pTLA
>To: rlfink@cnrmail.lbl.gov
>Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 20:34:38 +0100 (MET)
>
>Dear Bob
>
>I am CEO of regio[.NET] GmbH - and resposible of the ipv6 project and our
>connection to the 6bone. We've been working on IPv6 since the beginning of 
>1998 and provide uplink for two other leaf-sites in germany. We also
>participate in the RIPE-WG and and I attendet RIPE-Sessions on RIPE-30 and
>RIPE-31.
>
>We are also planning a project with the Fachhochschule Fulda - an academic
>site starting to work on IPv6 - with two Professors already publishing some
>interesting books on IPv6/IPnG.
>
>Our Backbone includes connections on DE-CIX and MAE-Frankfurt with uplinks
>to teleglobe and DFN/Ten-155 - we currently run nearly 20 PoP around 
>Germany (mainly in the central part).
>
>Our goal will to establish a broader IPv6-Backbone while providing a testbed
>for a couple of customers developing software and/or hardware where it will
>be essential that they a capable of IPv6 in the Future.
>
>
>   1. must have experience with ipv6 in the 6bone, at least as a leaf
>      site, and preferably as an NLA transit under a pTLA.
>
>A you can see in our 6bone-db (regio-de) we provide uplink for IPF and
>SPACENET while connecting to a couple of other pTLA-sites. There are
>requests from others providers peering with us to participate on 6bone
>while connecting through us as an uplink.
>
>We run IPv6-capable DNS and use IPv6 on different platforms (mainly CISCO
>on backbone)
>At the moment we use a part of the JOIN pTLA-space - and have also been
>delegated a space-delegation by SPRINT.
>
>   2. must have the ability and intent to provide "production-like" 6bone
>      backbone service to provide a robust and operationally reliable 6bone
>      backbone.
>
>At the moment we are installing additional routers at selected sites to
>implent a ipv6-backbone in neighborhood of our IPv4-Backbone to extend
>out IPv6-service to selected customers and also to other providers peering
>with us to test there IPv6-infrastructure.
>
>   3. must have a potential "user community" that would be served by
>      becoming a pTLA, e.g., the requester is a major player in a region,
>      country or focus of interest.
>
>We currently are a "major player" in the central region of germany and 
>consider ourselves as one of the larger smaller ISPs in germany. We currently
>run 20 PoPs and growing ...
>
>   4. must commit to abide by whatever the 6bone backbone operational
>      rules and policies are (currently there are no formal ones, but the
>      alain duran draft is a start in trying to define some).
>
>we hereby state that will abide to the 6bone operational rules and
>policies.
>
>
>We look forward to your response.
>
> Ciao
>   Bernhard
>-- 
>Bernhard Kroenung, Bahnhofstr 8, 36157 Ebersburg/Rhoen, Germany +49 6656
910101
>@work : bernhard@kroenung.de                              Work: +49 661
9011777
>@home : horke@Rhoen.De       @school :
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